After the government ordered a rollback in the prices of private health plans to December values, affiliates can expect relief in their pockets as the prepaid fees will have less of an impact on their total salary. Following the deregulation of the sector with DNU 70/2023 in December, which led to Claudio Belocopitt resigning from the presidency of the Argentine Health Union (UAS), medical coverage increased from 18% to 30% of the salary. With the compensation for overpayment, this would mean 22% of the total salary.
A report by the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis (Iaraf) estimated the weight of private medicine expenditure on an average formal salary by analyzing the variation of a plan from Omint from 2013 to the present. In those 11 years, the average salary lost 62% of its purchasing capacity in prepaid health coverage. The survey found that in 2013, the expense of this coverage consumed 11% of
